Zoo City
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  • Published: 29 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781405924061
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

Zoo City

The gripping novel from the author of Apple TV’s Shining Girls

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29 Nov 2018
Audiobook
2 Feb 2023
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29 Nov 2018
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A stunningly original urban fantasy of a shattered city where magic is horribly real

Zinzi December has a talent for finding lost people. Even when they don't want to be found. And when she is hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a pop starlet Songweza, she hopes it will be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell's undertow.

Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives - including her own.
  • Published: 29 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9781405924061
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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Praise for Zoo City

Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria, the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, crackles with original ideas

Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review

Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler. I loved it, it's going to be huge

Paul Cornell

I couldn't put this down. It's weird, thrilling, funny... filled with sleazy characters and lots of bad attitude

Mike Nicol

Lauren Beukes is very, very good

William Gibson

An unfamiliar land full of familiars, a broken Johannesburg peopled with damaged wonders... If our words are bullets, Lauren Beukes is a marksman in a world of drunken machine-gunners

Bill Willingham

Zoo City is pure originality ... a book that had me reading it revelling in Beukes' magical way with words

SF Signal

At times the witty and lyrical prose is sheer magic, the story captivating and the characters exotic, cruel and beautiful while the backdrop of Johannesburg seethes with hidden, lurking dangers around every corner, Zoo City is quite simply captivating

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